Archive for April, 2009

You may not remember how long you have had a fear of freeway driving, but looking at the highway reminds you that it’s there. This can be a fear and anxiety that completely interferes with your life in many different ways, and it’s time you learn how to deal with and overcome your fear of freeway driving.

You already know that this anxiety makes traveling difficult. It can take a lot of extra time to avoid using highways when you want to go on vacation or need to travel any where that is more than a few minutes away. It’s almost impossible to travel without using a highway at some point, and the only solution is to learn how to deal with your fear of freeway driving. Here are 3 tips to help you do just that, and get you back on the fast track and to your destination much, much quicker.

The first tip is to take the time to daydream. That’s right, daydream. I know we are taught that daydreaming is a waste of time, but the people who told us that never understood the power of a daydream. Start by taking a few minutes each day to find a place that you will be left alone and sit quietly for a few minutes with your eyes closed. Clear your mind and relax as much as possible.

Once you are there, begin to envision yourself driving along a highway. See through your own eyes and with as much detail as possible, see your hands in front of you on the wheel driving along. See the cars around you, the road in front of you, the hood of the car. Feel the air conditioning or the air from the windows blowing through your hair. Feel the sun as it beats down on your face. Experience the drive in your mind as much as possible, but with one exception.

As you envision yourself driving, allow yourself to completely get involved with the daydream to the point that you literally feel as though you are there driving right then and there. As you do this, allow yourself to feel relaxed, calm, and completely at ease and peace as you drive. See the cars fly by you as you gently smile and just watch. The key to this daydream is to feel the emotions of being calm, relaxed, and at ease as strongly as possible and to be in your mind and your dream as much as possible and to feel and experience it as being as real as possible.

The second tip to deal with your fear of freeway driving is to take control of the situation. Slow down if you have to. If someone is behind you and they don’t like it, big deal. Don’t allow them to bother you. If they are in such a hurry, they can go around you. Take your time, and drive at a speed that you feel safe and comfortable at. You don’t need to please anyone else on the highway. Take your time, take control, and drive at a pace that you are at ease with and comfortable with.

The final tip is to take control of your thoughts. What happens when you are on the highway is that your mind begins to race with all of the things that could go wrong. All the cars around you, changing lanes, merging in and out of traffic, and everything else begins to race through your mind and everything that could possibly go wrong while all of this happens. You very quickly lose control of your thoughts, and those thoughts begin to create your fear of freeway driving. Take back control of your thoughts, ignore all of the other cars, relax, and focus on things that make you feel good, happy, and joyful.

You don’t have to live with a fear of freeway driving. You can overcome your anxiety and start getting back to being able to drive while staying calm, relaxed, and completely at ease and peace. Once you understand the basic techniques to do this, driving on the highway becomes as easy as walking to you stove to make food.

Please leave a comment and share how you deal with your fear of driving.

If The Fear Of Driving Alone Stops You From Living Your Life To The Fullest, Then You Need To Read This…

A very common fear that many people experience is the fear of driving alone. Your mind begins to race with everything that could go wrong while you are driving alone, and you don’t have the comfort of someone else there with you if it does go wrong. Before long, you very quickly lose all control of your thoughts, and every possible thing that could happen floods your mind and become overwhelmed, scared, and the anxiety and panic begins to set in.

You begin to feel your heart rate speed up and it feels as though your heart is going to jump right out of your chest. Your breathing becomes shallow and quick, and it feels as though you are being smothered as your chest tightens up making it harder and harder to breath at all. You can feel the sweat begin to form on your face and head, and your hands feel like you just ran them under running water because they are so wet. It isn’t long after all this that you begin to feel light headed and dizzy, and your stomach begins to knot up and you feel as though you could vomit all over the place.

Relax, you aren’t really driving right now, your just reading those words. But I know that you can relate to them because it’s exactly what you feel every time you get behind the wheel of your vehicle, and especially when you are driving alone. This is a very common experience for many people, and it’s something that anyone who experiences this problem very quickly wants to overcome. The good news is that there are ways to deal with your fear and anxiety while driving alone.

To start, you need to keep in mind is that your fear is completely a subconscious fear. It happens over a period of time and can be overcome, and undone. The key is to practice feeling relaxed, calm, and completely at ease while driving. There are times when you feel this way while driving alone, and you need to use these times to change your subconscious programming. When you are behind the wheel and you feel this calm, relaxed, completely at peace feeling. You need to use it to your advantage.

Start by paying very close attention to how you are feeling, and remember those feelings. Focus on them as strongly as possible when you feel them and continue to tell yourself “I am always calm, relaxed, and at peace like this when I drive alone.” This begins to program this thought and these emotions into your subconscious mind to help you overcome your basic fear at other times.

The next thing you need to do is recall these emotions when you begin to feel anxiety or fear. This means you need to literally take yourself back in your mind to the time when you felt calm, relaxed, and completely at peace. Recall how you were sitting, and sit like that. Recall what facial experessions you had. Chances are you were smiling gently, and you need to do that again when the anxiety and panic sets in.

The key is to recall as much detail as possible about how you were sitting, feeling, thinking, and everything else when you feel calm and peaceful. Then, when you feel anxiety set in, simply sit, feel, and think the exact same things in order to calm yourself down and get back to that state of emotional calm and relaxation.

You don’t have to experience anxiety or fear while driving alone. There are some very powerful techniques available that will teach you how to use techniques like the one above in order to reprogram your subconscious mind and overcome that panic you experience when you are by yourself.